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323289493871Egypt sentences 17 to death over 2017 church bombingshttp://www.africametro.com/politics/legal-affairs/egypt-sentences-17-to-death-over-2017-church-bombings
http://www.africametro.com/politics/legal-affairs/egypt-sentences-17-to-death-over-2017-church-bombings#respondFri, 12 Oct 2018 13:18:36 +0000http://www.africametro.com/?p=42954An Egyptian military court today sentenced 17 people to death for their involvement in bombing churches in 2016 and 2017, state news agency MENA reported. MENA also said that 19 other people were handed life prison terms for the attacks which struck churches in Cairo, the Mediterranean city of Alexandria and the Nile Delta city […]

]]>http://www.africametro.com/northern-africa/morocco-dismantles-183-terrorist-cells-foils-361-acts-of/feed042951Sisi: 2011 Egyptian revolution was ‘wrong cure to wrong diagnosis’http://www.africametro.com/news/sisi-2011-egyptian-revolution-was-wrong-cure-to-wrong-diagnosis
http://www.africametro.com/news/sisi-2011-egyptian-revolution-was-wrong-cure-to-wrong-diagnosis#respondFri, 12 Oct 2018 13:05:30 +0000http://www.africametro.com/?p=42948Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has described the 2011 Egyptian revolution as “the wrong cure to the wrong diagnosis”, according to the Egypt Independent. Speaking at the 29th Armed Forces Educational Symposium, Al-Sisi argued that the Arab Spring that toppled Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak, had achieved insufficient change due to a lack of understanding among […]

]]>http://www.africametro.com/news/sisi-2011-egyptian-revolution-was-wrong-cure-to-wrong-diagnosis/feed042948Cholera – 59 Confirmed, 26 Negative Cases Among 172 Patients Hospitalized Since August 7thhttp://www.africametro.com/news/cholera-59-confirmed-26-negative-cases-among-172-patients-hospitalized-since-august-7th
http://www.africametro.com/news/cholera-59-confirmed-26-negative-cases-among-172-patients-hospitalized-since-august-7th#respondFri, 31 Aug 2018 07:42:40 +0000http://www.africametro.com/?p=42575Algiers — The Ministry of Health, Population and Hospital Reform underlined that out of the 172 hospitalized patients since August 7th, a total of 59 cases of cholera have been confirmed and 26 cases were negative until 27 August 2018, according to a ministerial communiqué. The distribution of confirmed cases by province are as follows: […]

]]>http://www.africametro.com/news/cholera-59-confirmed-26-negative-cases-among-172-patients-hospitalized-since-august-7th/feed042575Outcry inMorocco after ‘girl is raped, tattooed with swastikas’http://www.africametro.com/news/outcry-inmorocco-after-girl-is-raped-tattooed-with-swastikas
http://www.africametro.com/news/outcry-inmorocco-after-girl-is-raped-tattooed-with-swastikas#respondMon, 27 Aug 2018 19:25:28 +0000http://www.africametro.com/?p=42468Anger has erupted in Morocco after local media reported a 17-year-old girl was abducted, tortured and gang-raped by a criminal gang, whose members also forcibly tattooed her body. More than 12,000 people had signed a petition by early Monday demanding the government of King Mohammed VI provide the girl with urgent medical and psychological care […]

]]>http://www.africametro.com/news/outcry-inmorocco-after-girl-is-raped-tattooed-with-swastikas/feed042468Dozens of cases of cholera confirmed in Algeriahttp://www.africametro.com/news/dozens-of-cases-of-cholera-confirmed-in-algeria
http://www.africametro.com/news/dozens-of-cases-of-cholera-confirmed-in-algeria#respondSat, 25 Aug 2018 12:33:58 +0000http://www.africametro.com/?p=42391Dozens of cases of cholera have been reported in Algiers since mid-August. Health authorities, who spoke initially of gastroenteritis, are accused of trying to hide the information from the public. Forty-one cases have been confirmed in Algiers and its surrounding areas, announced the health minister in a press conference on August 23. One of the […]

]]>http://www.africametro.com/news/dozens-of-cases-of-cholera-confirmed-in-algeria/feed042391Militias force nearly 2,000 to leave Libyan capital’s largest shelter for internally-displaced: UNHCRhttp://www.africametro.com/news/militias-force-nearly-2000-to-leave-libyan-capitals-largest-shelter-for-internally-displaced-unhcr
http://www.africametro.com/news/militias-force-nearly-2000-to-leave-libyan-capitals-largest-shelter-for-internally-displaced-unhcr#respondSat, 18 Aug 2018 09:32:55 +0000http://www.africametro.com/?p=42047Libyan militias have forced nearly 2,000 people from an ethnic minority likely targeted for their alleged links to the former Gadaffi Government, to flee long-established shelters in the capital Tripoli, the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, said on Tuesday. In an appeal for the human rights of families originally from the city of Tawergha to be […]

]]>http://www.africametro.com/news/militias-force-nearly-2000-to-leave-libyan-capitals-largest-shelter-for-internally-displaced-unhcr/feed042047‘Absolute Confidence’ Youth Will Bring Change – Senior U.S. Africa Official Tibor Nagyhttp://www.africametro.com/central-africa/absolute-confidence-youth-will-bring-change-senior-u-s-africa-official-tibor-nagy
http://www.africametro.com/central-africa/absolute-confidence-youth-will-bring-change-senior-u-s-africa-official-tibor-nagy#respondWed, 15 Aug 2018 08:09:48 +0000http://www.africametro.com/?p=41907Washington, DC — In one of his first public engagements as the Trump administration’s top State Department person on Africa policy, Tibor Nagy addressed the African Diaspora Youth Leaders Summit. The gathering joined Mandela Washington Fellows – a centerpiece of the Young African Leaders Initiative (Yali) – with counterparts from the Diaspora. Yali was launched […]

]]>http://www.africametro.com/central-africa/absolute-confidence-youth-will-bring-change-senior-u-s-africa-official-tibor-nagy/feed041907Viral Video Lands Liverpool Striker Mohamed Salah in Hot Waterhttp://www.africametro.com/news/viral-video-lands-liverpool-striker-mohamed-salah-in-hot-water
http://www.africametro.com/news/viral-video-lands-liverpool-striker-mohamed-salah-in-hot-water#respondTue, 14 Aug 2018 11:23:14 +0000http://www.africametro.com/?p=41868Liverpool FC has referred a video allegedly depicting star player Mohamed Salah texting while driving to the Merseyside Police, The Independent reports. In the video, which was spread on Twitter, Salah appears to be using his phone while in his white Mercedes-Benz and surrounded by fans, whom he pointedly ignores. One fan can be heard […]

]]>http://www.africametro.com/news/viral-video-lands-liverpool-striker-mohamed-salah-in-hot-water/feed041868Gaddafi’s widow files complaint to UN over son’s detentionhttp://www.africametro.com/news/gaddafis-widow-files-complaint-to-un-over-sons-detention
http://www.africametro.com/news/gaddafis-widow-files-complaint-to-un-over-sons-detention#respondMon, 13 Aug 2018 12:35:11 +0000http://www.africametro.com/?p=41791The widow of former Libyan president, Muammar Gaddafi, has filed a complaint to the Geneva-based Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) against the imprisonment of her son, Saadi, despite his acquittal by a Libyan appeals court in a murder case. The Gaddafi family’s lawyer Khaled Zaidi told the Alarabiya.net that […]

]]>http://www.africametro.com/news/gaddafis-widow-files-complaint-to-un-over-sons-detention/feed041791Egypt postpones trial of 292 defendants accused of targeting Sisihttp://www.africametro.com/news/egypt-postpones-trial-of-292-defendants-accused-of-targeting-sisi
http://www.africametro.com/news/egypt-postpones-trial-of-292-defendants-accused-of-targeting-sisi#respondMon, 13 Aug 2018 12:22:00 +0000http://www.africametro.com/?p=41784An Egyptian military court has adjourned until 15 August a trial held for 292 defendants who are accused of taking part in an attempt to assassinate President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi and former Saudi crown prince Mohammad Bin Nayef. Prosecutors also charged the defendants with murdering three judges in the North Sinai city of Arish and […]

]]>http://www.africametro.com/news/egypt-postpones-trial-of-292-defendants-accused-of-targeting-sisi/feed041784Egyptian diplomat accused of ‘attempting to overthrow the incumbent regime’http://www.africametro.com/news/egyptian-diplomat-accused-of-attempting-to-overthrow-the-incumbent-regime
http://www.africametro.com/news/egyptian-diplomat-accused-of-attempting-to-overthrow-the-incumbent-regime#respondMon, 13 Aug 2018 12:12:09 +0000http://www.africametro.com/?p=41781Some lawyers have filed a complaint against the Egyptian ambassador Maasoum Marzouk, accusing him of “attempting to overthrow the incumbent regime and deliberately inciting the public,” local media reported yesterday. Marzouk was also accused of “insulting the Egyptian judiciary,” which is being represented by Hanafi Jibali the president of the country’s Supreme Constitutional Court. The […]

]]>http://www.africametro.com/news/egyptian-diplomat-accused-of-attempting-to-overthrow-the-incumbent-regime/feed041781Egypt to release 1,118 prisoners following presidential pardonhttp://www.africametro.com/news/egypt-to-release-1118-prisoners-following-presidential-pardon
http://www.africametro.com/news/egypt-to-release-1118-prisoners-following-presidential-pardon#respondMon, 13 Aug 2018 11:55:23 +0000http://www.africametro.com/?p=41775Egyptian authorities today announced the release of 1,188 prisoners after a presidential pardon was issued for the second time in a week. It is unknown whether any of those released were being held on political grounds, however, the Ministry of the Interior said 395 inmates were to be released as a result of the pardon […]

]]>http://www.africametro.com/news/egypt-to-release-1118-prisoners-following-presidential-pardon/feed041775Egypt mulls reducing civil servants’ working dayshttp://www.africametro.com/business/egypt-mulls-reducing-civil-servants-working-days
http://www.africametro.com/business/egypt-mulls-reducing-civil-servants-working-days#respondMon, 13 Aug 2018 11:38:26 +0000http://www.africametro.com/?p=41772Egypt is studying a proposal to reduce the number of working days civil servants work but said it will not reduce their working hours, the Anadolu Agency reported. The Information and Decision Support Centre (IDSC) said in a statement that the government’s Central Agency for Organisation and Management is studying the reduction of the number […]

]]>http://www.africametro.com/business/egypt-mulls-reducing-civil-servants-working-days/feed041772Sudan, Egypt begin high level military talkshttp://www.africametro.com/eastern-africa/sudan-egypt-begin-high-level-military-talks
http://www.africametro.com/eastern-africa/sudan-egypt-begin-high-level-military-talks#respondMon, 13 Aug 2018 10:38:02 +0000http://www.africametro.com/?p=41764The Sudan Defence Ministry announced the start of the fifth round of joint military talks with Egypt. The ministry said in a statement that the talks began on Sunday morning, without indicating how long they are due to continue. The Egyptian chief of staff, Lieutenant General Mohamed Farid Hegazy arrived in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, […]